Black Hand Inn: 07/01/2011

Sunday, 31 July 2011

Leukemia - Suck My Heaven

Genre: Death/Crossover
Country: Sweden
Year: 1993

1. Into The Morgue
2. I Nearly Forgot
3. Uncarved Miseria
4. Wandering
5. Sick Inside
6. You Es Of Ey
7. Everything Fall Apart
8. Memorized
9. Different But Same

Debut album by Leukemia, that came after a very successful demo. This one was a little left of normal when it came to death metal in 1993. Odd vocals (kind of hardcore yell), strange, humorous lyrics, but a solid release for the times. Guest musicians in this release were L.G. Petrov, Jörgen Sandström, Fredrik Lundberg and others.

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Die - Rise Of The Rotten

Genre: Brutal Death
Country: Denmark
Year: 2010

1. Executionroom
2. Soul Scavenger
3. Soil Became Flesh
4. Dead Flesh Makeover
5. Dread Lord
6. Mors Et Sanguis
7. Rise Of The Rotten
8. Vindictive
9. Gore Monger

Debut album by Die. This 37-minute death metal brutality fest doesn't let loose at any point. The work of guitarists Rasmus Henriksen and Tajs Kolman is complicated enough to keep from boring the listener. Typical brutal death growls, great drumming and nice production.

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Bones - Bones

Genre: Crust/Death/Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2011

1. March Of The Dead
2. Bloodlust
3. Bitch
4. Apocalyptic Warrior (Devastation cover)
5. Good Die Young
6. Slowburn
7. Lonely Death
8. 666
9. Delirium Tremens

Debut album by Bones, a band completely formed by members of split-up black/thrash Usurper. They deliver their music with punk attitude, thrash your brains out and have some crust elements, they are doomy at times and on top of that they are drenched in sludgy death metal. It provides 9 tracks of full on battery for a solid 35 minutes with no pauses or let up so that you catch your breath.

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Excruciator - Devouring

Genre: Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2011

1. Devouring The Flesh Of My Master
2. Skulls Of The Abyss
3. Disciples Of Menace
4. Hunter Killer
5. Destruction
6. Eviscerator
7. Wretched
8. Nuclear Exmortis
9. Metal Forces

Debut album by Excruciator. The band blends the sounds of early 80's death metal with early 80's thrash to create something that sounds fresh and frightening. A great mix of Kreator, Destruction with early Death, Possessed.

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Saturday, 30 July 2011

Falkenbach - ... En Their Medh Riki Fara ...

Genre: Viking/Black/Folk
Country: Germany
Year: 1996

1. Galdralag
2. Heathenpride
3. Laeknishendr
4. Ultima Thule
5. Asum ok Alfum naer...
6. Winternight
7. ...Into The Ardent Awaited Land...

Debut album by Falkenbach, a one-man-project of Vratyas Vakyas, that influenced the whole scene of epic/viking metal. It is a bit more black metal oriente than the other releases. The album ranges from all varieties of it's own powerful musical assault, with elements of black metal, follkish melodies, viking atmosphere.

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D.I. - Horse Bites, Dog Cries

Genre: Punk/Hardcore
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 1986

1. Pervert Nurse
2. Youth In Asia
3. Hang Ten In East Berlin
4. Obnoxious
5. Johnny's Got A Problem
6. Little Land
7. No Moms
8. Imminent War
9. Guns
10. Spiritual Law
11. Stick To Your Guns
12. Living In The U.S.A.
13. Bedrock

2nd album by D.I., a band that influenced a lot of punk/hardcore bands and even some metal ones (Slayer,etc.). It was not a commercial success, it has gained a cult following in recent times and has been regarded by some critics as the D.I.'s best album.

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Myrkgrav & Voluspaa split 'Ep

Genre: Black/Folk/Viking
Country: Norway/Norway
Year: 2011

1. Myrkgrav - Sjuguttmyra
2. Voluspaa - Ferden Gar Videre

This split 7'' pairs 2 norwegian bands. First is folk metal act Myrkgrav, who haven't been heard from since 2006, but return in excellent form and feature Guardians Of Time vocalist Bernt Fjellestad. Voluspaa are represented by an epic viking metal hymn .

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Krallice - Orphan Of Sickness 'Ep

Genre: Black
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2011

1. BBH
2. Fetus in Fetu
3. Boat Driver

Free digital-only EP of Orphan covers in memory of Brendan Majewski, who died in January 2011. The band released it exclusively for download.

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Troglodyte - Welcome To Boggy Creek

Genre: Death
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2011

1. Welcome (Instrumental)
2. Symphonies Of Sasquatch (Instrumental)
3. Piece Of You
4. Mummified Yeti Hand
5. Fight For Your Life
6. Caught (On Super 8)
7. Bring Me The Head Of Bigfoot
8. Beaten And Eaten
9. Skunk Ape Rape: The Rapture
10. They Walk Among Us
11. Hit By The Hendersons
12. The Only Good Hippie … Is A Dead Hippie
13. Fossil

Debut album by Troglodyte. The album title is based around the 1970′s Boggy Creek docudramas about a bigfoot like creature. The music these guys put out is pummeling, fast paced and riff based. The band delivers an excellent album that’s catchy, interesting, fast and loud with some catchy riffs and hooks, while not taking itself super seriously.

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Friday, 29 July 2011

Spellcaster - Under The Spell

Genre: Heavy/Speed
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2011

1. Spellbound
2. Chainsaw Champion
3. Molten Steel
4. Locked On
5. Power Rising
6. Nite Of The Hellbeast
7. Sands Of Fear
8. Spellcaster

Debut album by Spellcaster, that features re-recordings of all of the songs from the 'Ep ''Spells Of Speed''. The band has crafted an album that recalls the greats, while offering their own take on it. Their slightly raw approach to heavy metal themes and speed metal riffing combined with the tight coordination between dueling riffs and well paced drums, has as result a great speed metal record.

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Death Toll 80k - Harsh Realities

Genre: Grindcore/Death
Country: Finland
Year: 2011

1. Nothing In Common
2. Control
3. Taught To Consume
4. No Escape
5. Modern-Day Slavery
6. Piss-stained Press
7. Purchased Happiness
8. Crippled And Dead
9. Cycle Of Misery
10. False Comfort
11. Shepherd
12. Colleteral Murder
13. Drunk On Authority
14. Empty Pose
15. Traditions
16. Bleak
17. Commodities 18. Profiting On Fear 19. Maskmen 20. Sickened
21. Civilian Targets 22. Manipulated 23. Harsh Realities

After 2 demos and 3 splits, since 2006, Death Toll 80k release their debut album. With 2 members of Hooded Menace in their lineup, the band delivers an ultra-violent and dirty kind of grind. The group does not give a second of peace and invests in a very brutal sound, reminding early Napalm Death.

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Gormathon - Lens Of Guardian

Genre: Melodic Death
Country: Sweden
Year: 2010

1. Skyrider
2. Gormathon
3. Lens Of Guardian
4. Wings Of Steel
5. Devil’s Claw
6. As We Die
7. Damnation
8. Love Is A Motherfucker
9. Aftermath Of Adoration
10. Marble Orchard

Debut album by Gormathon. Melodic death metal with an attraction to classic heavy metal, rather than modern tendencies. The songs are epic in their attitude, the pace is never faster than necessary and every beating of drums fills a function. This is mature songwriting that gives the compositions sustainable use-by date, reminding Amon Amarth a bit.

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Thursday, 28 July 2011

Ketzer - Satan's Boundaries Unchained

Genre: Thrash/Black
Country: Germany
Year: 2009

1. Witchcraft (Intro)
2. Satan's Boundaries Unchained
3. The Fire To Conquer The World
4. Warlust
5. I Am Your Unholy God
6. To Each Saint His Candle
7. Inverted Cross
8. Crushing The Holy
9. My Triumph

Debut album by Ketzer. There's a surprising amount of variety here, considering the style. The bands does a great job making each song memorable, some of the more epic songs will get stuck in your head the first time through. The more straight black/thrash tracks, will strike you with their murderously precise drumming, their aggressive vocals and the riffs, that are what truly make this album what it is. A gem of black/thrash!!

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Annihilation - Silent Hell

Genre: Thrash
Country: Scotland
Year: 2010

1. In The Shadow Of The Bomb
2. Scream To The Skies
3. The God Delusion
4. Silent Hell
5. Reason To Die
6. Into The Black

Debut album by Annihilation. Nice effort from a young band, that execute thrash in a very satisfactive way. 6 long songs ticking in a total 43 minutes. The ambience created by the guys is definitely very good and sure is pleasant enough to listen to.

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Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

Genre: Symph. Brutal Death
Country: Italy
Year: 2011

1. Temptation
2. The Hypocrisy
3. The Imposition
4. The Deceit
5. The Violation
6. The Egoism
7. The Betrayal
8. The Forsaking
9. The Oppression
10. Agony

2nd album by Fleshgod Apocalypse. Great mix of brutal riffs, low growls and the occasional operatic clean. Technical brutal death metal with injections of classical symphonic parts and operatic clean vocals. From beginning to end the instruments tear through your aural defences.

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I.N.C. - Heaven Sent ... Hellbound

Genre: Thrash/Groove
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2011

1. Jackboot Thugbots
2. Fist Of Fascista
3. God Loves Violence
4. Bleed The Line
5. Swallowed
6. The Good Bones Stay Down
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. Rain
9. Audio Erotic Asphyxiation
10. It’s Coming
11. If I Were President
12. Fueled By Regret

3rd album by Indestructible Noise Command, that came out 23 years after their last release in 1988. The band continues hammering their favorite music, thrash, with some modern additions, reminding Pantera on vocals and Lamb Of God in riffing. A solid record with some awesome thrash songs, that lacks originality.

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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi

Genre: Black/Viking
Country: Norway
Year: 1994

1. Lifandi Liv Undir Hamri
2. Vetrarnótt
3. Midgards Eldar
4. Heimdallr
5. Norvegr

Debut album by Enslaved. With Enslaved having since moved farther and farther away from orthodox black metal in recent times, this is a testament to the band's roots. The atmosphere constantly kept alive using mostly simplistic riffs followed by keyboards whose sound is strategically placed throughout the tracks. The breakdowns are all done in the same way, after a violent blastbeat, the music suddenly stops, leaving all instruments but one guitar, silent.

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Benediction - Subconscious Terror

Genre: Death
Country: England
Year: 1990

1. Intro-Portal To Your Phobias
2. Subconscious Terror
3. Artefacted Irreligion
4. Grizzled Finale
5. Eternal Eclipse
6. Experimental Stage
7. Suspended Animation
8. Divine Ultimatum
9. Spit Forth The Dead
10. Confess All Goodness

Debut album by Benediction. While most bands were trying to go faster/heavier/more brutal, Benediction were one of the first to reign in the speed and add thunderous mid–paced passages to songs. Behind the mic is Barney, that later moved on in Napalm Death. Raw, primitive death metal.

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Tyr - By The Light Of The Northern Star

Genre: Folk/Progr. Power
Country: Faroe Islands
Year: 2009

1. Hold The Heathen Hammer High
2. Tróndur í Gøtu
3. Into The Storm
4. Northern Gate
5. Turið Torkilsdóttir
6. By The Sword In My Hand
7. Ride
8. Hear The Heathen Call
9. By The Light Of The Northern Star

5th album by Tyr. Their music is deeply rooted in traditional Scandinavian themes and melodies, with a strong progressive execution as well as many power metal tendencies. The entire album offers a fine mix of mostly mid paced to up tempo songs, of which a few in the strange but melodic language of the Faroe islands.

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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Fukpig - Belief Is The Death Of Intelligence

Genre: D-Beat/Grindcore/Black
Country: England
Year: 2010

1. Die Bastard
2. Britains Got Fucking Aids
3. Necessary Heresies
4. Mind Attack
5. Belief Is The Death Of Intelligence
6. Sadism In The Name Of God
7. Dawn Of The Dumb
8. This Is The News?
9. Greed Machine
10. This Is England
11. Midwinter
12. As The World Screams In Pain
13. One Nation Under One Eye
14. Existential Terror 15. All Of You Are Cunts And I Hope You Fucking Die

2nd album by Fukpig, the side project created by members of Mistress and Anaal Nathrakh, featuring Drunk on vocals, Misery on guitar and bass plus Migg on drums and lead guitar. With not a single track topping 3 and a half minutes, Fukpig knows how to get right to the point. They mix up crust, punk, black metal and grind into an almighty mass of audio filth.

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Convixion - Metal Drinkin' Conspiracy 'Ep

Genre: Speed/Thrash
Country: Greece
Year: 2007

1. Lordly (intro)
2. Avenger
3. Heavy Metal Way
4. Burning Inside
5. Drink Metal

First release by Convixion, with 4 songs and an intro of pure speed/thrash. Ignore the hilarious cover artwork and you'll have the joy to listen to 4 awesome metal songs, with entertaining melodic leads, sing-along choruses and great production.

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Cruel Force - The Rise Of Satanic Might

Genre: Thrash/Black
Country: Germany
Year: 2010

1. Witches Curse
2. Satanic Might
3. Forces Of Hades
4. Leather And Metal
5. Necromansy (Bathory cover)
6. Deathstrike
7. Victim Of Hellfire
8. Queen Of Heresy
9. March For The Pentagram

Debut album by Cruel Force, that features members of Nocturnal and Old. Evil, fast black/thrash in the vein of old Destruction. Don’t expect any originality from these guys, just old school black/thrash, with gruff death metal vocals and great, melodic leads.

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Martyrdod - Sekt

Genre: Crust/D-Beat/Death
Country: Sweden
Year: 2009

1. Livets Strängar Dödsackord
2. Nåd
3. Gloria Runt Iris
4. 6 Grader Till Helvetet
5. Sekt
6. Vanmakt
7. En Demon
8. Kärleksmässan
9. Död Åt Vek Punk
10. Cassiopeia
11. Stormfödd
12. Gast

3rd album by Martyrdod. It's heavy and D-beat-driven yet retains a sense of dark/cold melodies. 12 songs of brutal metallic crust. It has a distinct style within the strong tradition of swedish hardcore. The riffs are raw and powerful, with haunting melody over a storm of raw sonic shrapnel. Political, social and personal thought are dealt with in the lyrics.

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Monday, 25 July 2011

The Moaning - Blood From Stone

Genre: Mel. Death/Black
Country: Sweden
Year: 1997

1. Blood From Stone
2. Still Born
3. Of Darkness I Breed
4. Dying Infernal Embers
5. A Dark Decade`s Rising
6. Dreams In Black
7. Mirror Of The Soul
8. Dark Reflections

Debut and last album by The Moaning. Sounding typically swedish, all tracks are catchy and memorable but maintain a brutal edge, blastbeats a plenty. The vocal style is sharp screaming and there is a cold atmosphere everywhere. Unfortunately, this gifted band split up after this release.

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Nekrogoblikon - Stench

Genre: Symph. Death/Folk
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2011

1. No One Survives
2. Bears
3. Goblin Box
4. The Bog
5. A Feast
6. Return To The Sky (From Whence You Came)
7. Invasion
8. Gallows & Graves
9. Nekropolis
10. The Plague
11. Prince Of The Land Of Stench
12. This Is Our God

2nd album by Nekrogoblikon. The band’s songwriting and technical proficiency makes a giant leap forward (compared to their debut), with a combination of intricate riffs, blistering solos, humorous lyrics and catchy choruses that recall At the Gates and Children of Bodom. The use of electronics to provide atmosphere can be surprising, but works surprisingly well.

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Nunslaughter & Nekrofilth split

Genre: Death - Death/Punk/Crossover
Country: U.S.A. - U.S.A.
Year: 2011

Nunslaughter
1. Necrophagia
2. Boundless Fire
3. Defacing Holy Icons
4. Neath The Oak

Nekrofilth
5. Sewer Rat
6. Shoot Up Piss
7. Take Them To The Grave
8. Lifeless Head Of God
9. Shit Woman
10. Throne Of Sluts

Brand new songs from both bands. Nunslaughter continue playing their well-known brand of evil death metal, while Nekrofilth are trying a mix of crossover, punk and death metal.

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Sunday, 24 July 2011

Spider Kickers - Alcoholic

Genre: Thrash/Death
Country: Greece
Year: 2011

1. Death Makes No Exceptions
2. Are You Dead?
3. Dead Blind Drunk
4. Prohibition
5. Infected Society
6. What Is Hell
7. In The Bar
8. Drunkard
9. Alcoholidays
10. Alcoholic

4th album by Spider Kickers, one of the oldest and legendary greek bands (formed in 1986). Through the years their style remains the same, with no innovations at all, influenced by bands like Possessed, Hellhammer, Sodom. There are a lot of great riffs, nice leads, heavy bass, nice drumming and very good aggressive thrash/death vocals.

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Axegressor - Next

Genre: Thrash
Country: Finland
Year: 2011

1. The Only Reward
2. Star Inverted
3. Justified Distrust
4. Ironcrossfire
5. SS-18 "Satan"
6. Consume The Vicious Circle
7. Apocalyptician
8. You
9. Black & White Death Race

2nd album by Axegressor. Well-played thrash metal in the vein of Sodom, with fast tempo riffing, great, raw, raspy vocals and, generally with nice ideas that will fulfil your daily thrash dose.

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Crumbsuckers - Life Of Dreams

Genre: Crossover/Thrash/Hardcore
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 1986

1. Just Sit There
2. Trapped
3. Interlude
4. Super Tuesday
5. Shits Creek
6. Return To The Womb
7. Longest War
8. Shot Down
9. Prelude Intro
10. Life Of Dreams
11. Brainwashed
12. Faces Of Death
13. Hubrun
14. Bullshit Society
15. Live To Work 16. Moments Of Silence / Mr Hyde

Debut album by Crumbsuckers. A classic hardcore/crossover album. It is a near perfect combination of the intensity of mid-80's hardcore punk and hints of thrash metal, one of the most listenable balances of punk and metal.

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Rabid Dogs - Rabid Dogs

Genre: Grindcore
Country: Italy
Year: 2011

1. Intro
2. Rabid Dogs
3. Sex, Drugs & Corruption
4. Politicians
5. Cop’s Blood
6. Gang War
7. The Big Racket
8. Fernet Death Squad
9. Killer Elite
10. The Poo Man
11. Those Of The Uno Bianca
12. Bankrobbers
13. Don Carlos
14. Self-Made Justice
15. A Dangerous Toy

Debut album by Rabid Dogs. Draining ideas from the film Rabid Dogs (1974) by Mario Bava, they delivered a great sounding release that is rough, intense and pure raging violence. It is a combination of traditional grindcore, goregrind and the more groovy tones that we know of bands like Blood Duster, Gronibard and Birdflesh.

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The Living Fields - Running Out Of Daylight

Genre: Progr. Doom/Heavy
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2011

1. Remnant
2. Perseverance
3. From Miseries To Bloodsoaked Fields
4. When The Walls Go
5. Bitterness
6. Glacial Movements
7. Intermissione
8. Running Out Of Daylight

2nd album by The Living Fields. There is no particular genre at work here, though the closest might be some kind of avant-garde doom and heavy metal blend. There is plenty of musical talent on display and many of the melodies and riffs are well thought out. The vocals display an impressive range and variety, from death growls, to high-pitched power metal wailing, to a clean baritone.

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Craterface - Thrash To The Future

Genre: Thrash/Hardcore/Crossover
Country: Australia
Year: 2011

1. There Is No Power On Earth To Be Compared To Him
2. My Arch Nemesis’ Nanorobotic Saboteurs Rewired My Pre-Frontal Cortex
3. Bionic Tetrabrach
4. Punk Rock Is An Evolutionary Dead End
5. The Advent Of The Human Marionette Means Immortality Is Within My Grasp
6. Tin Foil Mind Shield
7. Let Us Explore Space Together Forever
8. I Hope Your Child Is Born With Such Deformities And The Resultant Guilt Is So Burdensome, You Must Kill Yourself And The Adversity Your Child Faces Inspires Them To Create A Colossal Cyborg Body So They May Rule This World With An Iron Fist (And Lasers) In The Name Of Truth And Justice
9. Our Insect Overlords Shall Inherit The Earth

2nd album by Craterface. 9 songs, 16 minutes of non-stop, fast-paced thrash/crossover with hardcore influences. 16 minutes are not enough for one of the best (mini) albums of crossover for 2011!

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Saturday, 23 July 2011

Incubus - Serpent Temptation

Genre: Death/Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 1988

1. The Battle Of Armageddon
2. Voices From The Grave
3. Sadistic Sinner
4. Incubus
5. Blaspheming Prophets
6. Hunger For Power
7. Serpent Temptation
8. Underground Killer

Debut album by Incubus. It was definitely a groundbreaking fusion of thrash and death metal, but it never saw a proper distribution and was buried in oblivion. What we have here is a record full of awesome songs, memorable riffs, all with sharp execution to make a convincing attack. Scott Latour's vocal style sounds shouted, yet growled at the same time.

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Massacre - From Beyond

Genre: Death
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 1991

1. Dawn Of Eternity
2. Cryptic Realms
3. Biohazard
4. Chamber Of Ages
5. From Beyond
6. Defeat Remains
7. Succubus
8. Symbolic Immortality
9. Corpse Grinder (Death cover)

Debut album by Massacre. By the time of it's making, death metal was just taking it's first steps, so the guitar riffs are still very, very thrashy. But you don't hear that thanks to the sonically heavy and intense production Scott Burns gave this. Kam Lee employs a very unique tri-vocal attack (a harsh death grunt, a bellowing roar, and a sick piercing scream). Death metal masterpiece.

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Nuclear Assault - Survive

Genre: Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 1988

1. Rise From The Ashes
2. Brainwashed
3. F#
4. Survive
5. Fight To Be Free
6. Got Another Quarter
7. Great Depression
8. Wired
9. Equal Rights
10. PSA
11. Technology
12. Good Times, Bad Times (Led Zeppelin cover)

2nd album by Nuclear Assault. It is their most furious album, presenting the world some superb hyperactive thrash metal with very characteristic vocals and a lot of catchy vocal lines, choruses and hooks. This is just straight-up thrash, fast riffage for your headbanging enjoyment. Amazing pounding riffs are heard throughout the album, as well as several dual guitar solos. The highly distorted guitars add a more heavier and dark sound to the riffs.

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Accuser - Dependent Domination

Genre: Thrash
Country: Germany
Year: 2011

1. Presentiment
2. Beneath Your Dignity
3. Torn To Pieces
4. Desolate Shape
5. Escape From The Oath
6. Dependent Domination
7. Mastering Punishment
8. Death To The Traitor
9. As You Bleed
10. The Cause Of All Evil
11. Behold And Beware

8th album by Accuser. The album delivers a fair enough share of the tension and excitement so important to this genre. The guitars are energetic, thick and provide the central focus of the band. A solid album with some nice thrash riffs and modern groovy production.

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Deviser - Unspeakable Cults

Genre: Black/Death
Country: Greece
Year: 1996

1. Stand And Deliver
2. Darkness Incarnate
3. Threnody
4. When Nightmares Begin
5. The Rape Of Holiness
6. Ritual Orgy
7. Dangers Of A Real And Concrete Nature
8. The Fire Burning Bright
9. In The Horror Field
10. Afterkill

Debut album by Deviser. Each and every song contains facets of brilliance that keep distinguishable from the tracks preceding and following it. Guitarist Vag and keyboardist Nick Christogianis work well together, successfully intertwining elegant atmospherics with straightforward mid paced guitar or harmonized riffs.

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Friday, 22 July 2011

Final Assault - Dead By Dawn

Genre: Crossover/Hardcore
Country: Finland
Year: 2011

1. F.A.
2. Dead By Dawn
3. Slippin’ On Your Grave
4. Walking Dead
5. The Haunting Eye
6. Send More Cops
7. No Mercy
8. Something Outside
9. The Evil Conquers
10. F.S.U.
11. You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation

Debut album by Final Assault. 11 songs in 24 minutes of pure hardcore/punk with a crossover/thrash direction. Greatly influenced by Suicidal Tendencies, they perform their music with great skill and passion.

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Sepultura - Morbid Visions

Genre: Thrash/Death
Country: Brazil
Year: 1986

1. Morbid Visions
2. Mayhem
3. Troops Of Doom
4. War
5. Crucifixion
6. Show Me The Wrath
7. Funeral Rites
8. Empire Of The Damned

Sepultura's debut album, with it's original line up of the Cavalera brothers, guitarist Jairo Guedes and bassist Paulo Jr., is a perfect example of primitive '80s thrash/death metal. With an energetic feel but little imagination or even semi-catchy riffs, this rough show carries a close resemblance to Sodom's earliest works.

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Loudblast - Sensorial Treatment

Genre: Thrash/Death
Country: France
Year: 1989

1. Fatal Attraction
2. From Beyond
3. Visions Of Your Fate
4. Agony
5. Trepanning
6. Rebirth
7. Infinite Pleasures
8. Malignant Growth
9. Pouss Mouss
10. Oath Of Allegiance

Debut album by Loudblast. What we can find on this material is a healthy mix of early thrash and death metal. Vocals are brutal and semi-growled, but the instrumental section belongs to the thrash metal. Thrashing riffs, killing solo's and all kind of drum beats.

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Dephosphorus - Axiom

Genre: Grindcore/Sludge/Black
Country: Greece
Year: 2011

1. Collimator
2. Continuum
3. Dephosphorus
4. Indulge Me In Silence
5. On The Verge Of An Occurence
6. Knife Missile
7. The Long Crossing

Amazing debut album by Dephosphorus, consisting of ex members from Straighthate (Panos Agoros, Thanos Mantas). Absolutely fierce, brutal but incredibly, sickly atmospheric and rich in shades taken from various heavy genres (punk, death metal, sludge, black metal, grindcore), where these guys move back and forth. It can be downloaded for free at this link.

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Agressor - Neverending Destiny

Genre: Thrash/Death
Country: France
Year: 1990

1. Paralytic Disease
2. The Unknown Spell
3. Elemental Decay
4. Voices From Below
5. Bloodfeast
6. Neverending Destiny
7. Prince Of Fire
8. Dark Power
9. The Arrival
10. Brainstorm
11. Bloody Corpse

Debut album by Agressor, the first french band to be signed on an international label. It can be best described as an unstoppable riff machine running at ultra-speed. It is characterized by amazingly fast but mostly quite distinctive riffs that weave an unsurpassable wall of sound. Complete with your typical deathish growls for vocals, these tracks are like one long thrash metal epic divided into shorter sections.

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Thursday, 21 July 2011

Mose Giganticus - Gift Horse

Genre: Heavy/Sludge
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2010

1. Last Resort
2. The Left Path
3. Demon Tusk
4. Days Of Yore
5. The Great Deceiver
6. White Horse
7. The Seventh Seal

2nd full length release by Mose Giganticus. Behind the band is Matt Garfield, who is handling all the songwriting, lyrics, vocals, drums and synthesizers himself, with a rotating cast of characters backing him up on guitar and bass both live and in the studio. You can find a blend of synths and sludgy metal riffs combined with ethereal melodies and pounding drums.

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Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum

Genre: Thrash
Country: Holland
Year: 1988

1. Malleus Maleficarum / Antropomorphia
2. Parricide
3. Subordinate To The Domination
4. Extreme Unction
5. Commandments
6. Chemo Therapy
7. Bacterial Surgery
8. Cycle Of Existence
9. Osculum Infame
10. Systematic Instruction

Debut album by Pestilence. From the opener anyone can see the awesome blend of thrash metal riffs, dissonant breaks and sudden fast restarts. The vocals by a young Van Drunen are already able to be frightening and truly morbid with that raspy, dramatic and totally sick tonality. The riffing style is aggressive, energetic, catchy and technical all wrapped up into this album, with chugging tremolo riffs interlaced with lots of unpredictable melodies and solo work.

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Lake Of Tears - Greater Art

Genre: Atm. Doom/Death
Country: Sweden
Year: 1994

1. Under The Crescent
2. Eyes Of The Sky
3. Upon The Highest Mountain
4. As Daylight Yields
5. Greater Art
6. Evil Inside
7. Netherworld
8. Tears

Debut album by Lake Of Tears, a doom metal band with an awareness for both melody, classic rock and atmosphere. In this release the band plays a kind of melodic doom with semi-guttural vocals and dense melodies (early Tiamat - Paradise Lost mid era).

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Bathory - Bathory

Genre: Black/Thrash
Country: Sweden
Year: 1984

1. Storm Of Damnation
2. Hades
3. Reaper
4. Necromansy
5. Sacrifice
6. In Conspiracy With Satan
7. Armageddon
8. Raise The Dead
9. War
10. Outro

Debut album by Bathory. From the classic album cover to the raw sound, this album encompasses everything metal. Due to the more aggressive guitar work, which is more akin to that of early thrash and Quorthon’s shrill vocals, which has the raspy sound of Lemmy, but much more distorted, is what far removes Bathory from other bands at that time.

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Kvelertak - Kvelertak

Genre: Heavy/Black/Punk
Country: Norway
Year: 2010

1. Ulvetid
2. Mjød
3. Fossegrim
4. Blodtørst
5. Offernatt
6. Sjøhyenar (Havets Herrer)
7. Sultans Of Satan
8. Nekroskop
9. Liktorn
10. Ordsmedar Av Rang
11. Utrydd Dei Svake

Debut album by Kvelertak. Imagine a mix of Turbonegro with hardcore and black metal elements. Whatever this album or Kvelertak are labeled doesn't really matter when it's as enjoyable as this. The band sings in norwegian and base their lyrics on Norse or viking mythology.

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Planks - The Darkest Of Grays

Genre: Crust/Black/Hardcore
Country: Germany
Year: 2010

1. ''Dénaturer''
2. Sacred And Secret
3. Tentacles (Solitude Prevails)
4. We Are Transluscent
5. Long Live Depravity
6. The Dead Return To War
7. "Fantasmes"
8. No Solid Grounds
9. Fallen Empires Are Burning
10. Scarlet Inside
11. The Darkest Of Grays
12. A Casket City

2nd album by Planks. Iit features 12 new tracks played on 41 minutes. Planks has keep the black metal on each track but now they are less chaotic, not much blast beats like before, but the same dark atmosphere it's floating around. Vocals are a mixture of crust/hardcore style yells and screams that are also heavily influenced by black metal with some ocassional spoken word passages and samples.

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Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law

Genre: Death
Country: England
Year: 1988

1. In Battle There Is No Law
2. Challenge For Power
3. Forgotten Existence
4. Denial Of Destiny
5. Blind To Defeat
6. Concession Of Pain
7. Attack In The Aftermath
8. Psychological Warfare
9. Nuclear Annihilation

Debut album by Bolt Thrower. They took the best aspects of the grindcore of bands like Terrorizer and Napalm Death, combined them with the thrash and first wave death metal of the late 80s, down-tuned their guitars a bit more and unleashed a pure holocaust, influencing a lot of future bands.

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Einherjer - Dragons Of The North

Genre: Heavy/Viking/Epic
Country: Norway
Year: 1996

1. Dragons Of The North
2. Dreamstorm
3. Forever Empire
4. Conquerer
5. Fimbul Winter
6. Storms Of The Elder
7. Slaget Ved Hafrsfjord
8. Ballad Of The Swords

Debut album by Einherjer. The album is filled with mid paced folky guitar riffs, subtle keyboards (for the most part) and a good vocal offering from Nidhogg. Total Bathory worship (epic/viking era) enhanced by extensive use of sumptuous keyboards and folk tunes, everything used in the right proportion to keep the heavy, epic feeling of the album.

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